Originals “Watch It Fall” and “Dust in a Baggie” came next, before the audience was treated to a rare Bad Livers cover “Lumpy, Beanpole & Dirt”. The crowd really started making noise for “Hide & Seek” when Billy took the helm for a wild and exhilarating jam through uncharted territory as his trusty mates, Jarrod Walker, Billy Failing, and Royal Masat dazzled the sea of jolly folks in Pittsburg, PA with their dexterous plectrum techniques. The band then plucked through a cover of the bluegrass tune “I’ve Just Seen The Rock of Ages” credited to The Stanley Brothers.īilly Strings – “I’ve Just Seen The Rock of Ages” (The Stanley Brothers) – Pittsburgh, PA – 8/11/21
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The concert rewarded those that made the weekday trek with numerous highlights, including a tease-turned-jam tribute to late rapper and Pittsburgh native Mac Miller on “What’s the Use?” as well as the debut of the Grateful Dead live staple “Peggy-O”.īilly Strings opened the show with fellow bluegrassers Leftover Salmon’s “Down in the Hollow” ahead of the original instrumental “Libby Phillips Rag”, inspired by an ID card found in a Nashville Airbnb with the title’s namesake on it. “It’s Wednesday night in Pittsburgh during an extensive tour, perhaps Billy Strings will let off the gas pedal tonight and it will be a pretty non-eventful show,” thought the skeptics.